SEO Position Drupal 5.1 Redesign
trueMarketing - May 1, 2007 - 20:22
Hello,
We contributed our SEO Position 4.7 theme to Drupal last year and have just updated the SEO Position website with a new look for Drupal 5.1: http://www.seoposition.com
The goal was to keep it simple, clean, and all around clutter-free. We've added more white space and kept the modules to a minimum, only using about 8 to 12 that we couldn't really live without such as pathauto, xml sitemaps, the page title module, and several others.
So, how did we do? And, would anyone like to see this version of our theme contributed to Drupal?
Best!
Brian
http://www.seoposition.com
yes please
Hi,
I tried to use your module in drupal 4.7.
It looked very nice, but with a module like panels the look-and-feel was corrupted.
Please contribute your theme and hopefully the look-and-feel will stay as it looks (great!) on all the modules.
greetings,
Martijn
Thanks for the feedback...
Hi Martijn,
Thanks for the input. We actually have two themes - the original SEO Position 4.7 theme now updated for 5.1 and the current SEOposition.com theme that you see on our live website. I will have the original SEO Position theme contributed last year (http://drupal.org/project/SEOposition) submitted this week for 5.1. It's a wider, much cleaner version of our 4.7 theme for Drupal 5.1. You should see it no later than Thursday added to the Drupal themes section.
The theme we're using on the live version of the SEOposition.com site may need some basic documentation before we can submit it because we are using Views on the bottom of the site (for Recent Entries, Most Discussed Articles, etc.). Therefore, we need to explain to users of the theme how to set up the Drupal site they are installing with Views to get the bottom working. Everything else is pretty much basic Drupal install stuff.
If more people request our new theme (on our live site), I'll have that submitted in the next week or so. I just want to assess the demand and if people dig it or not. So everyone that sees this, please let us know!
Thanks
Brian
SEOPosition.com
SEO Company
Offering Pure CSS Design, Web Optimization & SEO Consulting
Love the new theme on the
Love the new theme on the site. Already submitted by request to release this to the community.
Can never have too many themes available for 5.x.
the blocks at the bottom
Hi there, you say above that to 'get the bottom working' you have to use Views. I've enabled the views module but i still can't work out how to do the bottom...any help would be great.
thanks
thomas
Great theme
New theme looks great, please include it.
Anyway, would like to take this opportunity to clarify...
For the original SEO Position theme, the right sidebar is squashed down beneath the left sidebar when viewed on Internet Explorer 6. Is this a known problem and has been discussed somewhere?
Else it looks great on Firefox. Since my users are also from the IE community, I have no choice but to ensure it looks equally great on Internet Explorer.
Appreciate any help.
Great Theme !
looks a lot better than the last one and works well even in 800x600 res.
just one note: it's hard to distinguish between the comments in the "recent comments block" (well, really all links in the panel with the black background), i suggest you make the links become underlined and probably even change color when hovering the mouse.
Other than that, Great work, we look forward for next years theme too :)
good comments
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, the dark middle column with the comments are a bit dark. We'll work on a more intuitive, eye-pleasing workaround for that area in the next day or so.
Thanks again!
SEOPosition.com
Raleigh SEO Company
Offering Pure CSS Design, Web Optimization & SEO Consulting
nice theme
i love the new look, the theme is clean, with lots of whitespace,
eager to see the theme committed...
One more vote!
Thanks enky4u for the vote! Hopefully we'll get some more people liking the theme so we can justify the needed time to build the documentation and also support the theme on an ongoing basis.
SEOPosition.com
SEO Company
Offering CSS Design, SEO Consulting, Drupal Development
Plus to that one
Great work going on out there!!
good inspiration for us noobies
Please contribute the theme
commit and worry later
I wouldn't panic over documentation a very quick this view was set like this, this view was set like this,
then make sure you mention the lack of documentation it can always be added later when people start to moan.
Great job by the way it looks good
;)
Yeah, you may be right
Hi Johntymatts.
You're probably right on the documentation comment, but contributing the initial SEO Position 4.7 theme raised enough questions to make me think that some initial documentation might be good so as to not get the personal emails asking for advice on setting this new theme up - especially the custom Views at the bottom of the site.
Come on people, some more votes please ;-)
Brian
SEOPosition.com
Well if that's all that's
Well if that's all that's stopping the release, I will happily write the documentation for it ;)
You can proof read it and of you go.
Great theme, great work, a
Great theme, great work, a lot better than the last one. Cleaner, cooler, woow!
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I love this theme
I like the theme because it's so unlike most other SEO companies and has a modern, clean feel to it. Refreshing! I think the Drupal community would benefit from such a nice theme.
thanks!
Thanks Julia!
We think clean is beautiful! Cluttered sites often confuse the message or mission of the site. Thanks for your support and comments.
love it
I just love this theme..
I liked it in 4.7 and the newer one looks so much better.
Waiting for the release :)
we appreciate it!
Thank you Safin. 4.7 was a good beginning, but I really dig the new look and it's exciting to be able to receive such nice comments and interest on our new design. We appreciate it and I think we'll be ready to make a release of this theme very soon - perhaps next week if all goes well with client projects and workload.
If anyone spots any bugs or something else that we could fix beforehand, please let us know. We've tested it in Firefox, Safari, IE6 & IE7. The only problem I know we need to work on is the node title avatar CSS because we had to drop in a workaround "clear: both;" in the CSS for a bunch of admin pages in order for the text to stay aligned properly while logged in as admin.
I'd also like to come up with a video tutorial for Drupal users wanting the theme or a check list so we're not having to go round and round with support if we can help it.
Best!
Brian
www.seoposition.com
Did you get enough support to release the theme?
Hi,
How are the "votes" going to submit the new SEO Position theme to Drupal? I hope you're still considering it.
This theme is AMAZING! You
This theme is AMAZING! You have to release this!
ditto
another upvote here!
Thanks so much!
We appreciate it! Yes, thanks for the votes. We are going to release this theme really soon. I just need to grow several more arms to get it done ;-)
SEOPosition.com
SEO Company
Offering Pure CSS Design, Web Optimization & SEO Consulting
only arms your doing well :)
only arms your doing well :)
hi Brian How did you put the
hi Brian
How did you put the 3 blocks at the bottom and theme it. Can you provide some help there.
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Really nice theme and nice
Really nice theme and nice blog,very informative!! :) waiting for that cool looking theme!!
blocks at bottom
Hi Taherk,
To achieve the bottom links we simply use the Views module. Three custom Views were set up here and each pulls in data or creates a custom block at the bottom. We are very close to releasing this theme to Drupal users, and we'll include this and a brief how-to tutorial on how to do it with the themem whic will called Alek 2.0 ;-)
SEOPosition.com
SEO for Drupal and Drupal Themes
Offering CSS Themes and Designs for Drupal, & SEO Consulting
Excellent theme!
The old SEO Position theme was good, the updated 5.1 version better...and this is the best yet.
Looking forward to seeing the release (and thanks very much for releasing it to the community). You do great work.
Question on license
Hi,
I installed SEO Position for Drupal 5.1 and I am working on my website, but I wonder if it is allowed to delete the copyright notice at the bottom of the page (Designed by SEO Position and Blamcast) - I can write this copyright notice anywhere else, but I would prefer to have my own copyright (for the website) at that place. I tried to find it in the LICENSE.TXT but I can't understand it fully. Also - is it allowed to change the header?
Thank you very much for your help.
bottom blocks
hi there,
the bottom three blocks don't seem to be showing as they should? On the blocks admin page you can just choose footer and then they sit on top of each other. Is there something simple I am missing?
The same problem
Have the same problem. It must be some simple detail - as always.
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Float?
Hi,
I think you can arrange this with Float left in your style.css
float:left.Greetings,
Martijn